COLIN POWELL
"I think he would be a transformational president."
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
"My heart belongs to Barack."
RUDY GIULIANI
"I think the problem Barack Obama would have is, first of all, he's never run a city, never run a state, never run a business. I don't think, at a time when America's at war, with the major problems that we face, we're going to want someone to get on-the-job experience as the chief executive."
KARL ROVE
"You have probably seen this kind of guy at London parties, trailing ash from a fashionable cigarette into the carpet and making snide remarks about someone 'being an abominable bore'."
"If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."
- James Carville, on Hillary and Obama
ANN COULTER
"I do think anyone named B. Hussein Obama should avoid using 'hijack' and 'religion' in the same sentence."
SARAH PALIN
"When the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger."
GEORGE CLOONEY
"I think he'd be a good president in 2010, 2012 and 2014. I think he's the most charismatic person I've been in a room with in a long time."
JESSE JACKSON
"I want to cut his nuts off."
JIMMY CARTER
"If Obama is elected, which I think he is going to be, then I think that will be the transforming race for the end of racism, and prejudice, and hatred between races in this country."
HILLARY CLINTON
"Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox."
February 2008
"Senator Obama has inspired so many Americans to care about politics and empowered so many more to get involved. And our party and our democracy is stronger and more vibrant as a result."
June 2008
JOHN MCCAIN
"Senator Obama is running to be redistributionist-in-chief, I'm running to be commander-in-chief."
MARIA SHRIVER
"If Barack Obama was a state he'd be California. I mean, think about it: diverse, open, smart, independent, oppose tradition, innovative, inspiring, dreamer, leader."
"We don't mind –
actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election..."
- Ahmed Yousef of Hamas
REV JEREMIAH WRIGHT
"It just came to me within the past few weeks, y'all, why so many folks are hating on Barack Obama. He doesn't fit the model. He ain't white, he ain't rich, and he ain't privileged. Hillary fits the mold. Europeans fit the mold, Giuliani fits the mold. Rich white men fit the mold... Hillary was not a black boy raised in a single parent home, Barack was. Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people."
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN AD
"Senator Obama made time to go to the gym but cancelled a visit with wounded troops. It seems the Pentagon wouldn't allow him to bring cameras."
DICK MORRIS
"Mr Obama is a mild-mannered intellectual, with a marvellous sense of poise and decorum, who handles himself eloquently and with dignity, bringing to politics a style and grace not seen since JFK."
BILL CLINTON
"This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
January 2008
"Barack Obama represents America's future, and you've got to be there for him next Tuesday."
October 2008
JAY LENO
"Barack Obama now says he is open to offshore oil drilling. So, apparently, when he promised change, he was talking about his mind."
MICHELLE OBAMA
"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
The Observer, January 20 2008
"He's Arab. You know, he's from Africa. He's from Arab parts of Africa."
- Rush Limbaugh
ANGELINA JOLIE
"Obama is fighting for international justice, he wants to intervene militarily in genocides abroad, and he wants to close down Guantanamo Bay. They are things which could move me to vote for him, not his roots. Of course, an American president like Barack Obama would be great for my family."
FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER 3, 2008
